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Born in Paris on 18 October 1859, Henri-Louis Bergson was the progenitor of modern process philosophy and the language of ‘becoming’. He would later challenge Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species and Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Economy. Bergson also influenced phenomenology, existentialism, and post-structuralism.
Henri Bergson, the French philosopher of evolution, was born in Paris of Anglo-Polish parentage. During a lifetime of teaching, lecturing, and writing, he gained an international reputation as the author of a new and distinctive philosophical outlook presented in a succession of books whose fluent, nontechnical style gave them a wide appeal.
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: Mar 14, 2024 • Article History. In full: Thomas Ernest Hulme. Born: September 16, 1883, Endon, Staffordshire, England. Died: September 28, 1917, France (aged 34) Movement / Style: Imagists.
